Three Cheese Spinach Pesto Pizza + Vital Proteins GIVEAWAY

As promised, I not only have an amazing recipe to share for this Three Cheese Spinach Pesto Pizza, but thanks to Vital Proteins, I also have a GIVEAWAY! If you missed last week’s post, you can check out the first part of this two-part series here. But, first and foremost, this pizza. Seriously, one of my favorite things I’ve made in a long time. Josh and I love the idea of Friday night pizza and game nights with Brighton as he grows {and hopefully other children}, and although he’s a little young at this point, we’ve already set this tradition in motion. Rather than baking a full pizza, I prefer using flatbread and baking a personal size one for each of us. {I don’t do well with lots of leftovers sitting around, I tend to nibble until I’ve eaten way too much!}

For this Three Cheese Spinach Pesto Pizza, I used whole wheat lavash flatbread as the base, each one contains 7 grams of protein, 6 grams fiber and only 190 calories – yes please. Then there’s this pesto, oh the pesto! In all honestly, I’ve never been drawn to pesto pizzas, but with a craving for goat cheese, a garlic-spinach-based-pesto seemed like the perfect pairing. And trust me, it was. The pesto is robust, packed with earthy spinach, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, garlic cloves, pecans, and a little lemon. It came together exactly as I was hoping and beautifully countered the creamy goat cheese, sweet onions, and mozzarella cheese.

And perhaps the best thing about this spinach pesto is the addition of Vital Proteins’ Collagen Beauty Greens, adding not only protein, but an array of other health benefits, including anti-aging properties. In turning 30 earlier this year, I find I am suddenly all for bringing on the anti-aging products!

I’ve loved having a canister of these beauty greens sitting in my pantry. It’s great for adding to things like guacamole, or can easily be thrown in a blender with a little almond milk, peanut butter, banana and cocoa for a healthy smoothie. You can find additional details on the Collagen Beauty Greens below, plus check out Vital Proteins’ blog for more recipes using their various products.

Collagen Beauty Greens:

Offers a natural coconut flavor made from organic coconut water and the finest Madagascar vanilla beans

Helps prevent the signs of aging

Improves skin’s moistures, smoothness, and tone

28 servings per container

How Collagen Supports Joint & Bone Health

While I love the thought of collagen helping with more apparent things such as smoothing and toning my skin, I also love it’s ability to help support joint and bone health. It does this by allowing your digestive system to break down the proteins into amino acids, that are then absorbed and used as building blocks to help support collagen production throughout the body. Essentially it helps the body heal from within.

Bone Health

Several studies on collagen suggest that orally administering collagen peptides may provide beneficial effects on bone metabolism, especially in the calcium-deficient condition such as osteopenia.

Studies have demonstrated that when collagen peptides metabolites are present in this matrix, osteoblasts, the cells responsible for bone formation, are preferentially stimulated, instead of osteoclasts, the cells involved in bone resorption, this triggers bone formation.

Collagen Peptides may be effective on bone metabolism by inducing differentiation and maturation of osteoblast and stimulating their activity.

Collagen Peptides have been shown to support bone health through increased bone and mineral density, increased bone size, less brittle bones, and the stimulation of osteoblast activity in spite of osteoclasts activity.

Joints

Collagen plays an important role in the building and support of joints, and it may help reduce the discomfort associated with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

The beneficial effects of collagen peptides demonstrate a positive effect on knee joint comfort with a dose of 10g of collagen peptides per day. Subjects with the greatest joint deterioration benefited most.

Collagen hydrolysate has been shown to support joint health and possibly reduce the risk of joint deterioration.

Even MORE Benefits and Considerations – Preliminary research suggests that collagen supplements may help:

thicken hair

improve nail disorders

help boost the immune system

balance blood sugar

regulate sleep

assist with wound healing and reduce inflammation

So many amazing health benefits to consider, and best of all, you can enter to win a canister of each of these products to try for yourself. Vital Proteins has agreed to give one lucky winner a 20 ounce canister of Collagen Beauty Greens, and a 10 ounce canister of Marine Collagen, that’s a value of $130! For your chance to win, enter below!

So, these look like the best pizzas ever??? I’ve always been a little skirmish about adding things to my food, especially anything that has to do with marine or fish…even though I love fish, most of these add-ons taste really fishy or unpleasant.

But Kaylee – since you’ve been talking all this up, I’m thinking I would be willing to give this a go, especially using them in food might make them less noticeable to me, as opposed to having to take a supplement in pill form or in drink form?? Who knows…

Anyways, I’m definitely in the “over-30-and-seeing-fine-lines-now” crowd and have really been trying to take steps to improve my skin. If this is one way to do it, I’ll definitely give it a shot!

Thanks for the giveaway opportunity, and thank you always for the wonderful recipes ?

So I have had dr. Axe’s collagen powder sitting in my cart for a while. Haven’t ordered yet but I am now interested in this company as well. Thanks for sharing! Friday night homemade pizza is a must for us! Great memories with the kids!

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